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Tuesday, January 23, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Moral Leadership
The last few weeks have produced a series of sensational crimes that rival those of Richard Speck and Charles Whitman toor' wanton violence and murder. Seven died in New Orleans. Eight men broke in and killed a congregation of Black Muslims. A man, his wife and daughter were shot in the head in Grandin, Mo. And at this writing a group of suspected robbers holds more than a dozen hostages in a house where an officer is threatening to kill a mechanic in an attempt to hijack an airline. These are the sensational front page crimes, but inside pages are also filled with crime stories, and many more crimes go unreported.
As a consequence some are calling for the death penalty. There is a strong move for prison reform; others balsy permissiveness.
But with four years at hand, it seems appropriate to talk about moral leadership. Twenty years ago
Nixon stood on the platform with one of the most principled and respected men of his age, Dwight Eisenhower. Nixon has duplicated Eisenhower's landslide victories, but unfortunately he seems to have lost moral principle in the process. Historians may have to go back to Ulysses S. Grant to find a more corrent administration.
Nixon himself will probably never be convicted, but many of his staff members have pleaded guilty in the case. The other three were implicated in the ITT affair.
Nixon now has his coveted four more years. Let us hope that he will purge his staff, attempt to show some respect for the rights of others and the laws of the land, and provide the moral leadership that is demanded of him. There will be no respect for the laws so long as the President is repeatedly implicated in scandal.
—Eric Kramer
James J. Kilpatrick
WASHINGTON-Jan. 15 was the release date of another of those great, thick reports that the National Advisory Commission like a ton of snow off a wet tin roof. This was the report of the National Advisory Commission on Criminal Justice Standards It is to much of a muchness.
Crime Report Overlooks Victims
The report is divided into four parts. These add up to 611 finely printed pages, the parts had been separated and kept weeks apart, each of them might have drawn a useful measure of public attention and comment. Offered as a single document, the report can only be nibbled at.
I ribbled at a 238-page section dealing with corrections. The section contains much that is difficult for the patient to tone and approach left me cold. This part of the report was the work of a 20-member task force that included three professors, two doctors and other experts on penal reform. Their labors might have been greatly improved if the task force had included John Doe, victim of abuse, and Jane Doe, victim of rape.
In the whole of this gaggy section, one would be hard-put to find a dozen paragraphs that even hint at the nature of violent crime. The emphasis is wholly on his needles, his needles, his comforts, authorities acknowledge that—sight! there may be a few
violent and dangerous persons who must be kept incarcerated for a time, but as for the rest? The general idea is to treat the poor darlings with sweetness and light.
The concept that crime should be punished is a concept disdained by these authors. Punishment, as such, is the last remedy for crimes of the dream world, the offender-say, a burglar or car thief-would be released upon arrest, on his own promise to show up for trial. Found guilty, he would ideally be put on probation. At the very worst, he would be sentenced to more than five years in prison.
This offender—the authors do not regard him as a criminal, and they never, never speak of him as a convict—would begin serving his time in a new and comfortable institution located close to his family and friends. He would have a room of his own, not furnished with a chair beated in winter, air-conditioned in summer. He would be encouraged to decorate the room to express his own personality.
Our typical offender would be well-fed, of course, and provided with abundant opportunities for recreation. He would be permitted to wear his own clothes, but not in the academic instruction. He would be trained, if he wished, in a useful trade. The instruction would be coeducational, the better to avoid alienation.
Private lounges would be provided for extensive visiting hours.
One chapter, running to 50 pages, deals with the offender's rights. Except, perhaps, for the armored bear arms, the offender would wear a uniform right known to man: Free speech, peaceable assembly, protection against unreasonable search of his room and his mail. The officer must carry out counsel and to die process of law if he had a grievance against
the institution. In this happy place, a warden, seeking to maintain discipline, would himself beconstituted on trial.
The authors, in brief, reject not only the idea of punishment, but also, except in rare cases, the idea of imprisonment. In their obsession with rehabilitation, they are utterly insensitive to the harm caused by their actions and that criminals be kept from miting crime. Rehabilitation is a splendid goal, but it is not the only goal. Punishment
deterrence, retribution, and simple incapacitation also are splendid goals.
This report is the work of professionals, speaking professional jaws, dreaming dreams, dreaming recommendations are drafted from the criminal's point of view. It would be refreshing to see a court, one of these days, that gave equal time to the victims, too.
(C) 1973 Washington Star Syndicate, Inc.
- BR GOOD NOW. /'HEAR/²
Jack Anderson
A Smoke Screen of Letters
WASHINGTON--The latest report on smoking from the U.S. Surgeon General suggests that breathing cigarette smoke may be a hazard to the health of non-smokers.
the smokers and nonsmokers on airliners.
At first, the mail poured into the Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB), supporting Nader three to one. Then suddenly, the trend shifted. Now the mail is running about 50-50 on the issue.
This has started a clamor to ban smoking in elevators, airliners, restaurants, hospitals, doctors' lobbies and other public places. Already, a Ralph Nader suit has been filed to segregate
Unknown to the CAB, however,
the pro-smoking mail was inspired by Loriellard, the makers of Kent, Newport and Old
Nicholas von Hoffman
Gold cigarettes, the company, not wishing its customers to be inhibited aboard airplanes, induced its advertising agencies to join in a secret letter writing against Ralph Nader's suit.
The plot was hatched by Loriard law firm Arthur Stevens in a confidential memo last November to Loriard executive Bob Horsley who directs where the company advertising dollars will be spent.
Watergate Pleas Conceal Truth
WASHINGTON - The Watergate trial is completely different from other celebrated conspiracy trials of the Nixon administration, in that no waitings to get in the courtroom, no rallies, no fiery press conference declaration. The defendants assert the same motives as the Chicago Seven and others in the case, they did it for love of country, end with that, all similarity ends.
The courtroom is half empty. Only media people, law students and a few friends and relatives of the lawyers were made to prosecute or explain how patriotism was served by the tacky stealth of bugging Larry Barris in the Senate Democratic National Committee. The Berrigans would tell you endlessly and eloquently why they broke into offices and draft card records, but then it did not occur later they were being paid.
Mrs. Bernard Barker, the wife of one of the four Cuban dents from Miami, did try to go beyond a cryptic anawear of love for her husband, Castro. . . the terror. . . That when you really start fearing communism. This country would be attacked by the United States they used to have cards. You used to know who a Communist was, but they don't have cards any more and then worked at it . . even the priests.
Phil Berrigan, one of the priests Mrs. Barker might have had in mind, was at that moment only two courtrooms away. Berrigan had come to apply for a court order compelling his parole from the Old, after so many years of being told to go back where he came from, that now they don't want to give him a passport to do it. One would have thought that the board would be delighted to get its ordained fellow to Hanoi to be escorted by a B-52, but apparently they believe the criminal priest can be rehabilitated.
to get a jury to convict on a conspiracy court; but in this strange Watergate trial you try the impression that the defendants would do or say almost anything in order to go to jail. But when a view not prison, but the trial, as their worst punishment; nnt
With Berrigan and the rest of his peace-loving kind, the government has never been able
On the day Mrs. Barker and Berrigan sat in their respective courtrooms, one of the defendants had already pleaded guilty and Henry Robblatt, the attorney for the four Cuban defendants, seemed reduced to from: doing the same. The flambyant Robblatt, who is widely suspected of wearing one of the least cunningly made hairpieces ever wrought, was letting it be known that he would quit and walk out on the case without being hurt. But, as a one reporter sighed, "It's only a matter of time before they pull therug out from over Henry's head."
not wise to punish for political offenses. Furthermore, what
most of us want is information. Even the judge wants it. He's
Nicholas von Hoffman
Beginning in the Chicago Daily News in 1963, Nicholas von Hoffman moved to the Washington Post in 1966 to write a three-
times-weekly column, now syndicated by King Features.
Ronald Ziegler's claim that von Hoffman's is the only column he never reads. Conversely, the columnist's views have elicited occasional "right on" letters from a fellow reader, who reads them in his own "didn't care" manner's practical, it isn't right, damn it! viewpoint.
Von Hoffman is a writer well to the left politically, evidenced by
In his early forties, von Hoff man has in recent years aired his political commentary on CBS's *The Voice*, and he is conservative looking as his views are Radclib, the white-haired, pipe-smoking von Hoff admits to liking the TV medium, but he does not believe that he is hooked on print.
Sleuthing about in Washington, a town known for its incumbent Republicans, von Hoffman's writings have left him without a single news source, "at least when one who shaves regularly."
been up on his bench saying that this trial was going to get to the bottom of all this hanky-panky. He was enormously reluctant to accept Hunt's guilty plea, but it aired up so well that stamped insevere into prison; it's tough, even for a judge, to keep them out.
So we will just not know. We can look at Gordon Liddy, his face and moustache so strikingly like Thomas E. Dewey,'s see; we can look at big bishops, sitting alone, away from the other defendants, rocking slightly in his chair; and he is smiling, smiling, smiling. We can follow him out of the courtroom where an unexcited child or an adulterant first name is Fay and whose last name isn't known comes up to him and gives him a sandwich and a can of Donald Duck orange juice. He goes downstairs where there are cameras. "There come the cameras." I'm getting out of here," and she's gone.
Stevens drafted five model letters to the CAB and urged Bresman; "Could you get some help?" He asked people to write these—by hand on noncompany letterheads, using home addresses and ask each one to get one or two more, but not exactly the same.
said. Now the President is going after the Commerce Department with a meat ax. He isn't chopping services for businessmen so much as new environmental policies that cuts amounts to $70 million will be made in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The White House, in response to the quiet, NOAA executives have been told that the White House will deal harshly with anyone found leaking stories about the budget slush. One White House official said that top executives would be fired if leaks were traced to them.
In other words, Lorillard wanted a flood of letters to go to the CAB, but wanted them to look like they came from ordinary books. The author could contain such memorable and abusive phrases as "Who runs the CAB—the government or Mr. Nader?" or "Why don't you move into more time on preventing byjacking (sic), and less on smoking!"
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Washington Post-King Features Syndicate
At least two of Lorillard's ad agencies decided they would rather promote nasty letters to the agency, but Lorillard's old gold. Although the cigarette company refused to name the agencies, we had no trouble picking out the phony ads and checking the return addresses.
'Contrainy to Stevens' instruction, not all of the employees of the company had phrases. We traced their addresses to employees of Grey Advertising and D'Arcy, Macaulay, who respectively respected New York firms.
At Grey, a spokesman conceded that Lorillard had asked for the letters and that "four or five" persons working on the Lorillard account had helped out. But it was never a corporate thing, he said.
The lawyer, Stevens, first refused comment, then told us: "I knew the organized antismoking groups were engaged in a campaign to influence the voters in this election; opinions "should be alerted and given the opportunity to make their views known."
At D'Arcy, MacManus and Masius, the account executive for Lorillard, Tom Brady, declined comment.
Nixon Meat Ax
Legal Heroin
On a confidential mission to Britain, the federal government's top "narc doctor" investigated the British system of permitting heroin addicts to receive legal fixes. In theory, this cuts the profit motive from illicit narcotics, and some Americans are eager to try it here. But Dr. Lewis pointed out that for the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, concluded that the British system would be of dubious value in the United States. He found that even British clinics were relying less on heroin and more on intravenous doses of methadone. Lewis also noted that Britain had fewer than 3,000 addicts, far less than the estimated 500,000 in the United States. "Dividing legal coin for American addicts, Lewis said, would create new addicts without creaking old ones."
**TAXON KANE 1984**
President Ronald Reid of popular Peter Peterson as Secretary of Commerce because of his liberal leanings and openness with the press. Peterson had his own explanation. "My calves were too fat. I couldn't click my heels," he said.
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by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.
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